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Your weekday morning blend from Instant Tea: Wendy Davis 1. The Texas Legislature begins a special session today to try to reach an agreement on a school finance plan that currently contains $4 billion in cuts, including the...

Daniel Williams The passage of not one but two anti-bullying bills, the final death of an anti-trans marriage bill and the failure of amendments designed to defund and ban campus LGBT resource centers made this, the final full...

Daniel Williams The zombie-like resurrection of an anti-transgender marriage bill, movement by bullying bills and uncertainty about the fate of Texas’ HIV medication assistance program made for an uncertain week during this, the...

Sen. Tommy Williams Equality Texas reports that SB 723, the anti-transgender marriage bill from Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, has been placed back on the state Senate’s Intent Calendar for Monday. As we reported...

Daniel Williams Acrimony in the House, the return of a transphobic Senate bill and renewed hope for community input in HIV programs marked the 18th week of the Texas Legislature’s regular session, one of the most contentious...

Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands Daniel Williams at Legislative Queery reports that the Texas Senate has again adjourned for the day without taking up a bill that would bar transgender people from marrying people of the...

Equality Texas sends along word that SB 723, by Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, has been placed back on the Texas Senate’s intent calendar for Tuesday. SB 723 would remove a court order of sex change from the list of...

Gov. Rick Perry The mainstream media is finally picking up on efforts by the Texas Legislature to bar transgender people from marrying people of the opposite sex. The Associated Press has a story today about SB 723 by Sen. Tommy...

The Texas Senate adjourned today without taking up SB 723, the bill by Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, that could prevent transgender people from marrying people of the opposite sex in Texas. SB 723, apparently prompted by...

Nikki Araguz As we noted below, the Texas Senate is slated to consider a bill Monday would effectively bar transgender people from marrying people of the opposite sex. The bill is a direct response to the case of transgender...

Nikki Araguz A bill that would prevent some transgender people in Texas from obtaining marriage licenses will be heard by a Senate committee this afternoon. The bill is an apparent response to the case of Nikki Araguz, the...